Null and Timelike Geodesics near the Throats of Phantom Scalar Field Wormholes

We study geodesic motion near the throats of asymptotically flat, static, spherically symmetric traversable wormholes supported by a self-gravitating minimally coupled phantom scalar field with an arbitrary self-interaction potential. We assume that any such wormhole possesses the reflection symmetry with respect to the throat, and consider only its observable “right half”. It turns out that the main features of bound orbits and photon trajectories close to the throats of such wormholes are very different from those near the horizons of black holes. We distinguish between wormholes of two types, the first and second ones, depending on whether the redshift metric function has a minimum or maximum at the throat. First, it turns out that orbits located near the centre of a wormhole of any type exhibit retrograde precession, that is, the angle of pericentre precession is negative. Second, in the case of high accretion activity, wormholes of the first type have the innermost stable circular orbit at the throat while those of the second type have the resting-state stable circular orbit in which test particles are at rest at all times. In our study, we have in mind the possibility that the strongly gravitating objects in the centres of galaxies are wormholes, which can be regarded as an alternative to black holes, and the scalar field can be regarded as a realistic model of dark matter surrounding galactic centres. In this connection, we discuss qualitatively some observational aspects of results obtained in this article.

Interacting phantom cosmology via Noether symmetry approach

In this paper, we have presented a cosmological model where a phantom scalar field is minimally coupled to dark matter component. Noether symmetry method was applied both to investigate the cosmological solution and to find out what is the form of the potential of scalar field and the unknown function in the considered model. By using this method, these forms are resulted as trigonometric functions. Also, the obtained cosmological solutions are compatible with observations describing the accelerated expansion of the Universe. Furthermore, it turns out that the effective equation of state parameter in the model can cross the phantom divide line.

Tsallis holographic dark energy with hybrid expansion law

In this work, we explore the Tsallis holographic dark energy (THDE) model with IR cutoff as Granda–Oliveros horizon describing the Universe experiencing an accelerating expansion phase in the framework of flat Friedmann–Lemaître–Robertson–Walker (FLRW) Universe. The Universe evolution from earlier decelerated to the current accelerated phase is exhibited by the deceleration parameter acquired in the THDE model. By the value of the Tsallis parameter [Formula: see text], the equation of state (EoS) parameter for the THDE model represents the rich behavior of the Cosmos as, the quintessence era ([Formula: see text]), crossing the phantom divide line and phantom era ([Formula: see text]). The squared sound speed [Formula: see text] also suggests that the THDE model is classically stable at present. Also, the correspondence with the quintessence and phantom scalar field for the THDE model is analyzed to describe the accelerated expansion of the Universe.

A new pressure-parametric cosmological model

We put forward a pressure-parametric model to study the tiny deviation from cosmological constant(CC) behavior of the dark sector accelerating the expansion of the Universe. Data from cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies, baryonic acoustic oscillations (BAO), Type Ia supernovae (SN Ia) observation are applied to constrict the model parameters. The constraint results show that such model suffers with [Formula: see text] tension as well. To realize this model more physically, we reconstruct it with the quintessence and phantom scalar fields, and find out that although the model predicts a quintessence-induced acceleration of the Universe at past and present, at some moment of the future, dark energy’s density have a disposition to increase.

Scalar field solutions for anisotropic universe models in various gravitation theories

In this study, we have investigated homogeneous and anisotropic Marder and Bianchi type I universe models filled with normal and phantom scalar field matter distributions with [Formula: see text] in [Formula: see text] gravitation theory (T. Harko et al., Phys. Rev. D 84 (2011) 024020). In this model, [Formula: see text] is the Ricci scalar and [Formula: see text] is the trace of energy–momentum tensor. To obtain exact solutions of modified field equations, we have used anisotropy feature of the universe and different scalar potential models with [Formula: see text] function. Also, we have obtained general relativity (GR) solutions for normal and phantom scalar field matter distributions in Marder and Bianchi type I universes. Additionally, we obtained the same scalar function values by using different scalar field potentials for Marder and Bianchi type I universe models with constant difference in [Formula: see text] gravity and GR theory. From obtained solutions, we get negative cosmological term value for [Formula: see text] constant scalar potential model with Marder and Bianchi type I universes in GR theory. These results agree with the studies of Maeda and Ohta, Aktaş et al. also Biswas and Mazumdar. Finally, we have discussed and compared our results in gravitation theories.